The History Hour Episodes Available now

American Communists
American Communists, gun-toting children in Albania and death and forgiveness in Ecuador.

The Break-Up of the Soviet Union
Key players in the fall of the USSR recall the momentous events of December 1991

Death of an Anarchist
The controversial death of Giuseppe Pinelli, Samuel Beckett and flying to the moon

Yoyes, ETA's female icon
The death of a Basque fighter, resisting the Nazis in Lithuania, and a Hindu milk miracle

100 Women History Hour
A special edition of the programme remembering women that history has overlooked.

Bob Marley Survives Assassination Attempt
The shooting of Bob Marley, the resistance of the Mirabal Sisters, Colombia's Lost City

The 1948 French Miners' Strike
How coal miners in post-war France went from being seen as heroes, to pariahs.

The Dili Massacre
Horror in East Timor, book-burning in Britain and the birth of the James Bond theme tune.

The Pitcairn Sex Abuse Trial
Alleged sex abuse on a remote island, a controversial Kurdish song, men versus computers

Dickey Chapelle - War Reporter
The pioneering American woman journalist; life in Mao's China; and Harry Houdini.